May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 393

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) Collection of Jackie Robinson ephemera, including 9 items from during his career. 60 items in one box, various conditions. Vp, 1947-2016

Additional Details

Brooklyn Dodgers program/scorecard from Robinson's rookie year. [16] pages including wrappers; minor wear. Scored for an 18 August 1947 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in which Robinson hit a first-inning home run Issue #2 of the comic book "Negro Heroes" featuring Robinson on the cover. [32] pages. 4to, illustrated color wrappers; lacking rear wrapper, moderate wear to front wrapper and last 3 pages. New York: National Urban League, 1948 Pair of issues of the comic book "Jackie Robinson," #4 and #5. Each [32] pages. 4to, illustrated color wrappers; issue 4 worn with 6th leaf defective, issue 5 with only minor wear. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, November 1950 and 1951 Jackie Robinson Batter Up Baseball Game. 8 x 14 including metal spinner; moderate dampstaining. Issued with plastic figurines (not present). Brooklyn: Arrow Toy & Novelty, 1951 Pair of issues of Quick Pocket Newsweekly with Robinson on cover, 17 April 1950 and 6 October 1952 Portrait pinback reading "Jackie Robinson" over yellow background, 1 1/2-plus inches across, minor wear, circa 1956 Portrait pinback reading "Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, 3B." One inch-plus across; minimal wear. [Topps, 1956] and 51 pieces of later commemorative material from 1969 to the present (baseball cards, buttons, newspapers and more).